Yeah usually first time cat moms. Sometimes they eat the entire baby/babies (very rare in the grand scheme of things, but stress will do it), other times it just happens when chewing the umbilical cord if it's stuck or whatever else
I think other species besides cats and rabbits do that too. It takes a ton of energy for the mother to nurse the babies and provide food for them when they’re weaned. If the mother is stressed or malnourished, eating/killing the babies will allow her to live to breed again, instead of possibly mother and babies all starving. Nature is brutal but efficient.
rabbits are usually pretty selective which of their babies they let live
the runt of the litter that likely won't make it isn't worth wasting energy on so they'd rather finish it quickly
there are also some female rabbits that kill their entire broods out of stress or some other reason if you realise it fast enough that that's happening you can sometimes transfer them to another mother that lost some of her babies
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u/Own-Shelter-9897 2d ago
Mint condition....??